Whitpain Board of Supervisors re-elects Joe Palmer as chairman

WHITPAIN — The Whitpain Board of Supervisors reorganized for the new year Jan. 7, leaving much the same when it comes to the board’s leadership.

The supervisors elected Joe Palmer to continue as board chairman.

Palmer, who has served on the board since 1996, has been chairman since January 2008, according to Township Manager Roman Pronczak.

While Palmer remained chairman, the board selected Adam Zucker to serve as the new vice chairman. Zucker, who has been on the board since 2008, takes over the position from Fred Conner, who had been vice chairman the past two years.

Conner will serve as board treasurer, while fellow Supervisors Anthony Greco and Melissa Murphy Weber will serve as secretary and assistant secretary, respectively.

In other business, the board approved the land development plan for the future Second Alarmers Rescue Squad station, according to Pronczak.

Second Alarmers, which has provided exclusive emergency medical services for the township since 2007, has operated out of a trailer in the township municipal complex parking lot during that period. The squad is planning to construct a permanent station in the parking lot between the township police building and Wentz Run Park.

While the majority of the designs in the land development plan remained the same, the plan includes some improvements for traffic circulation at the building and “beefed up” the barrier between the station’s driveway and the park, according to Pronczak.

“The work will start sometime around this summer,” Pronczak said of the project.